Improvement in vapor-burners



UNITED STATES ORSON 1v. PERKINS,

PATENT OEEroE.

OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD MILLER 86 00., OF SAMEPLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN VAPOR- BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,051, dated November12, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OEsoN N. PERKINS, of Meriden, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Topfor Vapor-Burner; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawin g and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification andrepresents, in

Figure 1, a side view of the top as applied to the lamp-tube, and inFig. 2 a vertical central section of the same twice the size.

This invention relates to an improvement in the article of manufacturewhich is applied to the top of the wick-tube of a lamp for the purposeof vaporizing the fluid andformin g what is termed avapor-burner,particularly to the class in which the perforations for the vapor topass through are made between two disks, the said disks serving as aprotector for the jets when moving the lamp.

Heretofore this top or burner has been made from cast metal turned intoform, and bored out to fit the tube, which construction requires so muchmechanical labor as to make them an expensive article. The object ofthis invention is to simplify the construction, and consequently greatlyreduce the cost; and it consists in forming a tube from sheet metaldrawn up to fit the wick-tube, the two disks cut from sheet metal, thelower one placed onto the tube and secured by closing it thereon, the

upper disk by riveting or otherwise securing the upper end of the tube,the perforations being made through the tube in substantially the usualmanner.

A is the tube, which is struck up from sheet metal to fit closely thewick-tube, but so as to be removable therefrom or be adjusted verticallythereon in the usual manner. 13 is the lower disk, C the upper disk,both formed from sheet metal, the lower disk B perforated to pass ontothe tubeand closed thereon, as seen in Fig. 2. The upper disk 0 is, bypreference, indented upon its under side so as to be set onto the end ofthe tube and be thus governed in its proper relative position, and issecured thereon by a rivet, a, or other equivalent device. The tube isbored between the disks,as at d, for the escape of the vapor, which,ignited, burns between the disks in the usual manner.

Thus constructed the article is much cheaper and equally as good, if notbetter, than that formed from solid metal.

It will be understood that this top is used upon a tube within which isawick extending down into the fluid, and that by heating the wick in thetube vapor is generated, which, passing through perforations in thedisk, and when ignited serves the purpose of heating the wick for thegeneration of vapor, the first heating being done by the application ofheat directly to the wick-tube from some other source.

I claim as my invention- The herein-described top for a vapor-burner,consisting of the tube A and two disks, B C, the said tube extendingthrough the disk 13 and united with the disk C, in the mannersubstantially as set forth.

0. N. PERKINS.

Witnesses:

O. B. ARNOLD, GEO. M. CLARK.

